Obsessive devotion
Ballet, first love, bullying, memory loss, and two boys who keep choosing one another.
Start with Hilarina →October Arden · Queer fiction & romance
They were told they were broken. Then they found each other.
The world has already taught these characters to hide, distrust, and survive. Love gives them somewhere to begin rebuilding.
Queer fiction about people pushed to the margins—neurodivergent, disabled, chronically ill, traumatized, and otherwise told to make themselves smaller—learning safety, restoring trust, and loving one another without apology.
Written from inside these lives
No one here is a lesson or a diagnosis.
These stories make room for queer people in all our specificity: obsessive, exhausted, brilliant, frightened, ill, plural, traumatized, devoted, and still entirely worthy of love.
The characters are not tidied into something easier to understand. They get to remain themselves—and take center stage.
autism & ADHDOCDpluralityace & demi identitieschronic illnesstrauma & CPTSDfound family
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Plurality & found family
Messy minds, impossible loyalties, and a love capacious enough for everyone inside.
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Survival & caretaking
Prison, trauma, disability, and the people who refuse to let a wounded man disappear.
Start with The Care of Broken Things →Coming December 8 · ARCs open nowOut now
Waiting for Sunday.
For three years, museum security guard Nate Orson has watched a beautiful stranger visit the same painting every Sunday. Then one day the stranger puts his fist through it—and Nate lets him. A slow-burn MM romance about autistic devotion, prison yearning, and two men discovering that love isn’t something they have to survive alone.
New release · Hilarina Ever After, book two
The ogre comes home.
Hilary and Trenton fought their way through cruelty, distance, and memory loss. This extended epilogue gives them the ordinary life they earned.
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Starting with Cake.
A sharp-tongued janitor. An enormous, twitching software developer. A box of honey buns and an “I love you” before hello. Join the newsletter for a neurodivergent queer romance about chronic illness, found family, and being loved without being made smaller.
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